Winston Churchill Quotes

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

I think psychology would be an easy transition and figuring out the human mind somehow.

[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subject; it is well known, that the language and the notions proper to his own profession are infused into every subject, and all things are measured by the rules of navigation: and if he should take it into his head to philosophize concerning the faculties of the mind, it cannot be doubted, but he would draw his notions from the fabric of the ship, and would find in the mind, sails, masts, rudder, and compass.

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

At the level of the mind, you are part of the human mind; at the level of the brain you are part of the global brain. This is a perfect example of becoming the change that you want to see.

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.

Thought rules mankind.

The thing that I really like is psychology. I love the human mind. I love the choices you make based on your experiences and instincts and your development based on such experiences and so I guess that's why I love acting so much.

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and returning along the course of its own sweet river music; while the semicolon brings clauses and thoughts together with all the silent discretion of a hostess arranging guests around her dinner table.

When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

They use the simple back and forth, the same, old rhythm That a baby can pick up, and join, right with 'em. But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copacetic Using nursery terms, at least not poetic.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.